English professor
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- noun
- /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ prəˈfɛsər/
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profesor de inglés
- However, most of my English professors advise me to do the same.
- English professor at the University
- college English professors
- most English professors
I mean, forget English professors, Trump's friends are barely English speakers.
- I mean, forget English professors, Trump's friends are barely English speakers.
- Peter Buttigieg's father was a Marxist, also Marxist English professor.
Examples
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I go and visit my old English professor every now and again.
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Yes, most English professors and intellectuals today do believe that knowledge and power are intertwined.
Academic text (2007) -
I was down in Mexico with my English professor.
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"How do you know I'm an English professor?" I asked.
Fiction book (1998) -
He was an English professor when he married my mother.
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Her father was an English professor at Lexington Community College, and her mother was a housewife.
Fiction book (1998) -
Hooper likes to think of himself as hyperarticulate; he is, after all, in his way, an English professor.
Fiction book (1999) -
Nancy was an out-of-work English professor and tended to scoff at all things scientific.
Fiction book (1994) -
Cheney begins by claiming correctly that most English professors believe that "knowledge and power are always intertwined."
Academic text (2007) -
I was fortunate to have a very supportive English professor during my college years.
Synonyms
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A person who teaches English to students of any age
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a university teacher who specializes in English' is directly and compositionally derived from 'English' (the subject/discipline) modifying 'professor' (a senior teacher). This modifier+head structure is a basic, cross-linguistic noun phrase pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
English professor combines English, meaning the language and its books, and professor, meaning a college teacher, so imagine a teacher with thick books explaining poems and grammar. So, English professor means 'a university or college teacher who teaches English language or literature'.